The Communist Party of China (CPC) is boasting of over 100 smart phone applications designed to allow senior party members to more accurately track their underlings’ loyalty, based in part on how much communist propaganda the individual consumes on the app.

The Department of Justice (DoJ) wants all visitors’ IP addresses – some 1.3 million – to a website that helped organise a protest on the day of President Trump’s inauguration. This is an attempt by federal government to learn your online behavior and use it against you. Agreeing or disagreeing with the motive is not what is at issue. The issue is the continual erosion of online privacy.

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Many Americans fear they have lost control of their digital security and are concerned that public and private institutions are unable to keep their personal information safe. Whether hacks we all witnessed in the 2016 presidential election or massive breaches reported by Yahoo in a very delayed manner, all seems lost. Malicious hackers, politically motivated operatives, rogue government agencies or skilled pranksters all are at our collective throats doing harm.

According to a Pew Research Study conducted in early 2016, many still do believe all is well. Yet half do not think Federal Government or Social Media sites are up to the task. The same study also showed that the younger you are the more you might favor unbreakable technology (even by law enforcement).

Francis Rawls “doth protest too much, methinks”. He is a former Philadelphia police sergeant and has been in the Philadelphia Federal Detention Center for more than 16 months. He has been found in contempt of court for refusing a judge’s order to unlock two hard drives the authorities believe contain child pornography. Theoretically, Rawls can remain jailed indefinitely until he complies. See full article